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What are the chances this can be used to run android apps on Linux phones?
You already have Waydroid - but this strips out a lot of stuff you might need, so Waydroid is probably the way to go anyway
What if I'm trying to run foss apks in an isolated environment? Like a Lemmy client?
Linux usually ships all components thats needed to run Android apps
Might be possible, but...
Checking the patches on their repo, it seems it will not be very useful for running bank apps and that kind of stuff on waydroid, maybe if they publish a signed image with all the patches for faking a real android environment, but the patches look like they're fixing only for their hardware/stack.
...so like Waydroid?
Lepton is a waydroid fork.
So yes, both are.
Ah. Another "rebranding theft"
No.
Lepton is quite far from waydroid. Significant architectural changes, like Lepton is userspace only, waydroid runs a shared virt while Lepton is per app containers, etc.
Valve tends to be good about upstreaming, etc. The original projects aren't losing out
It's nice to have options.